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BnK 
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Posted: May 02 2011 at 11:47am |
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If you use copper can you use any of the power heads or heaters you used while doin the treatment again? Or the buckets used? Is there a way to decontaminate them?
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: May 02 2011 at 10:59pm |
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Rinse in freshwater as you remove from the coppered water
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Posted: May 03 2011 at 12:09am |
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So it wont leach into the plastic or anything or silicon if there is any? Heard so many differnt stories, just dont want to contaminate my other tanks
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: May 03 2011 at 11:41am |
I think you'd be fine. Substrate is the real worry.... getting copper out of sand is tough.
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Posted: May 03 2011 at 2:37pm |
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My understanding is most of the time "chelated Copper" is used. This means it resists precipitation and adsorption by aquarium substrates. I have heard that if you rinse things well enough, you can re-use plastics/glass products. But you will NEVER get it out of substrate and porous materials.
However, compared to the investment you will be putting into a reef aquarium, the cost of replacing power heads, heaters, and buckets is fairly minimal. If you can swing it, I would go ahead and replace what you can.
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Posted: May 03 2011 at 4:13pm |
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If you are going to replace powerheads heaters and buckets, I'll take them. They don't cause problems for me.
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